The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1918, Page 8

SSS eS SSL | | APAMIALRBRUAR Bo rwees a diene: BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE The North Dakota Council of De- fense this morning opened an execu- tive session which promises many im- A large num- ber of matters of urgent interest have | ter portant developments. come up since the adjournment of the board two weeks ago, and it is prob- able the present session will run from ten days to two weeks. The executive committee of the North Dakota council is a rather ty- pical organization of Flickertail farm- ers, business and professional men. Charles ‘M. Whitmer of Yucca, one of the most active members, was born in LaGrange county, Indiana, moving thence with his parents to Kansas in the bleeding days of that state, and coming to North Dakota in 1884, when he first took up a residence at Man- dan. Shortly after he established his ranching interests at Yucca, where he now has 2,500 acres of fine land, on which he run: 0: head of pedigreed shorthorns. He has three sons, all of whom are helping out at home. In 1911 he served as a member of the house of representatives, and he has had three terms as commissioner of Oliver county. T. J. Nielson. T. J. Nielson was born in Carleton Place, Ont., 68 years ago, and settled in Pembina county in the spring of 78, homesteading near Hoople two years later. He has been actively en- gaged in farming since 1864 and is still at it. His family consists of four daughters and three sons, one of the latter and two of the former residing at home. He is chairman of the Walsh county Republican central committee, and he has held other coun- ty and township offices. His people, of pioneering Scotch stock, were early settlers in Canada and original home- steaders in North Dakota, the whole family coming into North Dakota in 1879. Mr. Nielson’s father died 20 years ago, but his mother, Mrs. H. L. C. ‘Nielson, is. still alive and ac- tive at Walhalla, at the age of 87. V. H. Stickney. Vv. H. ‘Stickney, the medical member of the board, was born in Vermont in 1855 of an ancient New England family. He came to North Dakota in 1883 and settled at Dickin- son when that town was considerably wild and wooly. He brought with him a diploma from Dartmouth and he im- mediately took up the practice of med- icine at Dickinson, where he has been actively engaged ever since. Dr. Stickney has two daughters, one of them is the wife of Capt. Nachtway of the base hospital No. 160, Camp Jackson. Dr. Stickney has owned a Stark county ranch for years and has made a success of the stock business. When the North Dakota council of de-j fense was organized in 1917, he was made chairman, which post he held until he received his commission as Neutenant in the medical reserve corps in November, 1917. Later he/ was .made medical aid to the govern- or and chief of the North Dakota medical advisory bord, in which. ca- pacity he is still serving. William Langer. Attorney General William Langer is the youngest member of the council and has. also the only native North Dakotan. He was born at Everston, near Casselton, on September 30, 188; was educated in the public sshools of Cass county and at Columbia; took up the practice of law in Mandan; | became first assistant then state's attorney; made it mighty difficult to get a drink in Imperial Morton, for Minot and making North Dakota safe for matrimony, he returned to New York and married a popular young woman on Riverside drive who had become interested in him in his Col- umbia days. He is now seeking re- election, Lynn J. Frazier. Lynn J. Frazier, governor and ex- officio of the board, was born in Min- nesota bu tcame to North Dakota as soon as he could conveniently arrange it, and settled near Hoople, whence he finished the Grafton high school and the Mayville normal and _ then entered the University of North Da- kota, graduated;\ came back home and married, took up farming on the| old home place, and addressed the as- tonished cows and chickens in fan- cy Greek and Latin cuss-words. The Nonpartisan league went up to Hoo- ple one day, yanked Mr. Frazier off his plow and made him governor, since which time he has become the most cussed and discussed executive in the United , States. He is a republican, a Scotchman dnd a Methodist, with four children. Charles G. Backberg. Chales G. Backberg of Bottineau located in Bottineau in the spring of; 1902, He was born in lowa 49 years ago and grew up on a farm. When he was 22 years old he took up sta- tionary and traction engineering which he followed for several years, later returning to farming in Iowa and then in Minnesota, where he spent five years before coming to/ North Dakota. He has 480 acres un- der cultivation in Bottineau; has been township supervisor for three years and road supervisor during almost his whole residence in Bottineau. He has four daughters; two residing at home; one married and one employed in Divide county. Peter Morgan. Peter Morgan of Grand Forks, the labor member of the board was born in Scott county, Minnesota, in 1866. He remained on the farm until he was eight years old, when he moved to )St. Paul and was appreniiced to the ‘ printing trade, in which he spent 14 years at the saintly city before he came to Grand Forks to take a job on the Herald in 1889. He has lived in Grand Forks ever since, and is now publisher of the North Dakota CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years NORTH DAKOTA COUNCIL OF DEFENSE OPENS INTERESTING EXECUTIVE !Cass county, -|Jr., who volunteered from South Af- Leader, a labor paper. His Mr. Mor, school-ma‘an an’s , and he are two sons. the s federation. Dorr H. Carroll. the county, lowa, in. 1874. in 1891 for Gothenburg, Neb., graduating from the school. In Nebraska he attended the Wayne normal college, and then he came to Minot, where he studied law with Alfred Blaisdell, being admitted to the North Dakota bar in 1908, since which date he has practiced in Ward county, where he served for three terms as assistant state's attor- ney. He was state chairman of the late progressive party, is married, and has two daughters and a son— Doothy, Elizabeth and Dorr, Jr. after R. J. J. Montgomery. R. J. J. Montgomery of Tappen, vice chairman of the council was born in Giranty county, Farmanagh, Ireland, whither his parents had removed from Scotland, in 1865. At the age of 18 he came to America, locating in New York city, where he found employ- ment in a wholesale grocery house, where he remained five years, at the end of that time guing to California and later to Illinois, where he spent 15 years farming in DeKalb county. He came to ‘North. Dakota 16 years ago. He assisted in organizing the North Dakota Rarmers’ union in 1916 and was elected president. He has since been twice reelected and is still chief executive of the union. Mr, Mont- gomery was. one of a family of 13 children, which has made him an un- lucky number for “malefactors of great wealth” and their like. In New York he organized the first indepen- dent labor union outside of the Knights of Labor, Until that time the boys in the wholesale district had been go- ing on at 6 in the morning and work- ing through to ten. Montgomery got the clerks together, and they struck, getting as a result the then unheart of privelege of going on at 7 a. m. and off at 7 p. m., except on Saturday, when they worked all night if nec- essary. In California he organized the first longshoremen’s union and he has been active in the ranks of or- ganized farmers from the time he re- turned to the soil. Thomas Allan Box. Thomas ‘Allan Box, secretary of the North Dakota council of defense, was born in Wabasha, Minn., 50 years ago, and he came to North Dakota ‘and located on a Red River valley farm in 1878, being one of ten children born to a pioneer Minnesota couple. In 1884 Secretary Box began life as| @ messenger for the American Ex- press Co., running from Casselton to the Pacific coast. Four years later he went to Chicago as president of the Waukesha Water Co., in which ca- pacity he remained until 1894. In 1906 having transferred his interests to mining enterprises, he was elected president of the Western Engineer- ing Co., with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Mexico City. In 1912 he returned to farming in North Dakota and he now has 1600 acres under cultivation in He has two sons in the service, Lieut. Thomas Alan Box, rica with a British contingent, secur- ing a transfer to the American forces after Unclé Sam went in. He is now training aerial observers at the front Sergt. Byron D. Box, recently in the signal corps at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., now is in the recruit- ing service at Atlanta, Ga, The sec- retary’s parents settled in Minnesota in 1859, and his father raised a com- pany for home defense from the In- dians during the Cival war, when he was commissioned a‘captain in the un- ion forces. Both are still living, hav- ing only recently celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary. K. S. Ramsett. ‘K. S. Ramsett of Fingal was born in Dane county, Wis., April 29, 1954: At the age of two he accompanied his parents to a farm on the Bad Axe river, where he grew up. At the age of 20 he entered the pu lic schools of Viroqua, Wis., whence he graduatea three years later. He then spent a year at the University of Wisconsin. which exhausted his pocketbook, and he came out to Minnesota for two years’ farming and railroading, saving enough money to put himself through the Curtis business college at St. Paut. In 1882 he came to Bismarck as time: keeper for the boarding house where workmen engaged in building the big bridge across the Missouri were fea. In the fall he became a clerk for SESSION TODAY Many Matters of Importance to Be Considered—Personnel of Body. Is Typical of State—But One Born Outside of the United States father homesteaded in Rice county, Minneso- re he was one of the earliest two daugh- has He is president of the Grand Forks Trades and Labor coun- cil, organizer for the American Fed- eration of Labor, and a member of ate executive committee of the! Dorr H. Carroll, former chaiman of board, was born in Aldamakee He left lowa Waukon high Open Evenings For the Accommodation of the Public Men’s Athletic Union Suits $1.00 Value 55¢ . HOT WEATHER ™ SPECIALS Oxfords in all leathers Canvas Shoes and Oxfords Silk Hats and Caps Silk Hosiery in all colors Palm Beach Suits \ Silk Shirts in all colors One Store Only. Bismarck grocers. In 1884 he wen: WOMEN FAIL to Washburn to, eingage in business for himeelf, selling out, eight years TO LAN D ON LABOR BOARD latey and establishing himself at Fin: HS (Continued From Page One.) gal, in Barnes county, where he owns | mos ‘teverything.. that is for saie. Barnes. county: has.sent him to botn fs houses of legislature and has been | of all unions: instead of to each mem- nice to. him’in other ways. ‘Mr, Ram-} ber.” 3 sett is married and ‘has two sons, the The plan to place women on the ex- being in training | ecutive council was defeated ‘after service - at For: | speakers had: declared it was class leg- islation. . All offices of the federation, elder, not quite 19, for the aviation . Snelling. 4 a) 0° TODEFEND HER WITH HIS LIFE RG TARZAN OF THE APES WAS READY BA which has been secured by the Bismarck theatre for an en- gagement commencing Monday, June 17. sae ee {Eckman Laboratory, Philadelphia Yerxa, Emerson, Whitteley & Clark, | TAR announcement in Bismarck Theatre, commencing Monday, June 17th. See ZAN tomorrow’s paper. aaa FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1918. Ecene from “Tarzan of the.Apes,” the amazing cinema cobras | Open eines Specials for Saturday IN MEN’S WEAR Men’s $1.50 Union Suits--Long About 100 doz of Arrow Collars Legs and Sleeves $1.00 We Carry a Complete Line of Bathing Suits $1.00 to $10.00 SPORT SHIRTS In All New Colorings and Combinations Cream, Blue, Green, Pink—Stripes, Silks and Combinations of Silk, Collars and Cuffs to match —an ideal shirt for office work, golf, auto and general purposes for hot. weather. $1.00 to $3.50 Visit this Store for Hot Weather Togs and Furnishings ROSEN CLOTHING SHOP © We Have No Connection With Any Other Store in North Dakota. it was pointed out, are open to union. ists of both sexes. Patriott cexercises today supplant- ed union activities at the annual con. yéntion here of the American Feder ation of, Labor, after a brief session, the convention was adjourned to per- mit federation officers to take part in a flag day demonstration here at noon at which Samuel Gompers, president Open Evenings A People’s Store 20c values, to close out 10c. Broken Sizes The Largest and Most Complete Shirt and Collar Department In Central North Dakota of the ‘federation, delivered an ad-! WANTED—Capable young man or dress. young married couple for service as The labor officers then went to ‘Min-| attendants at state hospital for in- neapolis where they participated in a| sane. Male salary from 35 to $5@ pardde of more than 20.000 school | ~female $30 to $40, depending on services rendered. Board, room and ghildren in honor of flag day. Mr. laundry included. Phone 110 or Gompers and Governor Burnquist ad- write W. .M. Hotchkiss, Jamestown, dressed the marcners wnen they as-| ‘N. 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